Institute of Frontier Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China.
Cancer Center and Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, SAR, 999078, P. R. China.
Adv Mater. 2024 Nov;36(45):e2409066. doi: 10.1002/adma.202409066. Epub 2024 Sep 17.
The overexpression of polyamines in tumor cells contributes to the establishment of immunosuppressive microenvironment and facilitates tumor growth. Here, it have ingeniously designed multifunctional copper-piceatannol/HA nanopills (Cu-Pic/HA NPs) that effectively cause total intracellular polyamines depletion by inhibiting polyamines synthesis, depleting intracellular polyamines, and impairing polyamines uptake, resulting in enhanced pyroptosis and cuproptosis, thus activating a powerful immune response to achieve anti-tumor therapy. Mitochondrial dysfunction resulting from overall intracellular polyamines depletion not only leads to the surge of copper ions in mitochondria, thereby causing the aggregation of toxic proteins to induce cuproptosis, but also triggers the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within mitochondria, which further upregulates the expression of zDHHC5 and zDHHC9 to promote the palmitoylation of gasdermin D (GSDMD) and GSDMD-N, ultimately inducing enhanced pyroptosis. Then the occurrence of enhanced pyroptosis and cuproptosis is conductive to remodel the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, thus activating anti-tumor immune responses and ultimately effectively inhibiting tumor growth and metastasis. This therapeutic strategy of enhanced pyroptosis and cuproptosis through comprehensive polyamines depletion provides a novel template for cancer immunotherapy.
肿瘤细胞中多胺的过度表达有助于建立免疫抑制微环境,并促进肿瘤生长。在这里,我们巧妙地设计了多功能铜皮考汀/透明质酸纳米丸(Cu-Pic/HA NPs),通过抑制多胺合成、耗尽细胞内多胺和损害多胺摄取,有效地导致细胞内多胺完全耗竭,从而增强细胞焦亡和铜死亡,从而激活强大的免疫反应以实现抗肿瘤治疗。由于细胞内多胺的全面耗竭导致的线粒体功能障碍不仅导致线粒体中铜离子的激增,从而导致有毒蛋白质的聚集诱导铜死亡,而且还引发线粒体中活性氧(ROS)的积累,这进一步上调了 zDHHC5 和 zDHHC9 的表达,以促进 gasdermin D (GSDMD) 和 GSDMD-N 的棕榈酰化,最终诱导增强的细胞焦亡。然后,增强的细胞焦亡和铜死亡的发生有助于重塑免疫抑制性肿瘤微环境,从而激活抗肿瘤免疫反应,并最终有效地抑制肿瘤生长和转移。通过全面耗尽多胺来增强细胞焦亡和铜死亡的治疗策略为癌症免疫治疗提供了新的模板。
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